If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.
If you want to live big, then don't let the small things kill you.
Many small businesses are running entire businesses from a mobile phone.
Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.
I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage.
The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
I put music on and I drive around town.
You can't load a small boat with heavy cargo.
A small cloud may hide both sun and moon.
Small tree trunks can make the cart turn over.
A tree that grows in the shade of another one will die small.
There is nothing like deprivation to generate thanks for small mercies.
For a greedy man even his tomb is too small.
This was the winter of 2008/9. Work was ongoing to reinstate a tram system in the city. A lot of people couldn’t see the point of trams and many more disliked the disruption. Streets were closed off. There was almost a sense of ‘apartheid’ as t...
I may stay here in this town another day or I may go on to another town. No one knows where I am. I am taking this bath in life, as you see, and when I have had enough of it I shall go home feeling refreshed.
He speaks in that strange sports talk, telling me about the start of the new season and asks if I follow baseball. No. I really don’t. He assures me if I stay in town long enough I will become a baseball fan. It’s a requirement of living in St. L...
If you grew up in a rural area, you have seen how farmhouses come and go, but the dent left by cellars is permanent. There is something unbreakable in that hand-dug foundational gouge into the earth. Books are the cellars of civilization: when cultur...
A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be ...
